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How to secure erase memory card?
I have a SD Card that I'm selling shortly since I no longer have a use
for. My question, I know with a hard drive it's important to securely erase it. I use a program called KillDisk but is the same necessary for a SD Card? I already used Windows Explorer to erase all files and then as well did a format on it. Will that do the job? |
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How to secure erase memory card?
On Mon, 29 May 2006 21:03:36 -0600, MarkW
wrote: I have a SD Card that I'm selling shortly since I no longer have a use for. My question, I know with a hard drive it's important to securely erase it. I use a program called KillDisk but is the same necessary for a SD Card? I already used Windows Explorer to erase all files and then as well did a format on it. Will that do the job? If you delete the files (I don't know what "erase" is supposed to mean) then formatted it, that is not enough to keep a skilled technician from recovering parts if not all of it. Would anyone care enough to try though, and is the data sensitive? If not, don't worry about it. You don't need a comprehensive program like used for HDD to overwrite random passes several times or anything like that, just put something on the drive that complete fills it, to overwrite all of it. For example on a 512MB drive, copy a 512MB (actually slightly smaller due to marketing terminology for "MB) file to it, then when that finishes, delete it. Anyone who could recover your data after that would not bother, they would already have you bugged and just raid your home/office/car and take what they want instead. |
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How to secure erase memory card?
"MarkW" wrote in message ... I have a SD Card that I'm selling shortly since I no longer have a use for. My question, I know with a hard drive it's important to securely erase it. I use a program called KillDisk but is the same necessary for a SD Card? I already used Windows Explorer to erase all files and then as well did a format on it. Will that do the job? You might want to ask on the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup to see if anyone there knows of a freeware program that reportedly clears SD cards. While the memory chips in the card do not retain a recoverable layer like a hard drive or floppy disk almost any program that Microsoft OS uses to erase them usually means there is a way to unease them. I'd look for a 3rd party program in the freeware newsgroup for a more secure method of erasure. You might want to ask on the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup to see if anyone there knows of a freeware program that reportedly clears SD cards. |
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